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From: bruns@tetibm2.ee.TU-Berlin.DE ()
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Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language
Date: 2 Aug 2001 23:39:44 GMT
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 Dear Ada community,

 Let me tell you what would trigger that I use Ada for my projects:
 In short: A Ada-C Compiler would bring me to that state.

 Although I use almost exclusively Fortran,
 my projects run on all machines that have a C-Compiler.
 If I have to port my projects to a machine where no Fortran compiler
 is available for, I use a Fortran to C translator (NAG-f90).

 C is portable assembler.
 So, eg. GNAT should target C.

 No, GNAT does not run on all systems that I target:
 
 Is there a GNAT for Linux on Alpha?
 Is there a GNAT for Cray T3E? 

 Okay, I am interested mainly in high performance computing,
 so I will continue to use Fortran for the compute intensive tasks,
 but I would immediately start using Ada for the rest, as soon
 as I can be shure that, for the rest of the millenium, there will
 be a tool to transform my Ada parts to object code.
 I am shure that C and Fortran will be available until the end of
 my life. I am quite shure that C++ compilers for many machines
 will be available. Other languages ...

 Why not a Ada to C ( portable assembler ) translator?

 Warner